Jeremy Haladyna's MAYAN CYCLE CD available on Innova! Here, available from the label of the AmericanComposers' Forum, is an entire album devoted to a 25-year musical discovery. Here are selected items from a gigantic cycle of pieces that treat mind-bending Mayan ideas in contemporary musical language. With previousreleases appearing on anthologies, don't miss this first, INTEGRAL release from the Cycle!

Jeremy Haladyna has thrice converted Mayan calendar into sound...inventing 3 unique scales that directlyreflect the mathematical brilliance of this astonishing people. The opening cut of this new CD [excerpt ONE below] was conceived in Luubscale, and has notes born of the cycles of Venus, Earth, and the 260-day Mayan almanac.

All the sample cuts below come from the Innova compilation CD:

ONE is from "Demon Zero." The Luubscale Jeremy invented musically translates the great "zero point" of the Mayan calendar where Earth, Venus and the sacred almanac align. This only happens every 104 yrs. Virtual guitar, howler monkeys and mystic voices are all attuned to the "new" notes in this excerpt, notes perhaps better described as "timeless."

TWO is from "Godpots" [Ollas]. Here four flutists playing conventional instruments and ocarinas in all sizes re-enact an actual rainforest ceremony, only in music. [Live recording with Areon Flutes from the 2008 Fischoff Chamber Competition, used by permission.]

THREE is again from "Demon Zero" and features scratch turntable. Listen as three pivotal Mayan timecyclesapproach a crisis of alignment!

FOUR is from "Tollan, Place of the Reeds." An oboe wails mournfully over a mystical pipe organ to evokeTollan, mysterious mythical homeland for so many Mesoamerican peoples. For the Maya, it was "Puh." [This excerpt from II, "Snake Mountain" with Michele Forrest, oboe and Jeremy Haladyna, organ.]